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To: LindyBill who wrote (46944)	9/25/2002 2:54:45 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

First, the Nazis did not hang their anti- semitism on religion, but on race. Second, people (both Protestant and Catholic) as or more pious than those who were anti-semitic made up the majority of Holocaust rescuers, casting doubt on the religious essentiality of anti- semitism.Third, even in those countries that cooperated with the Nazis, there were cultural differences of response, such as Italian reluctance and Vichy French feelings of solidarity with Jews who were French. Fourth, even in the most anti- semitic countries of Eastern Europe, there were a lot of rescuers, and most of them were, again, pious. Fifth, even in Germany, the Jews were accepted by a conservative state, granted full citizenship, played an active role in government, and were quite assimilated, showing that anti- semitism was not a constant, virulent characteristic even of Germans in the early 20th century. All of these things show the problematic relationship of the Holocaust to lingering traditions of religious anti- semitism, and demonstrate that the Holocaust was by no means an inevitable or even likely consequence of contemporaneous religious piety........